Program

• Opening ceremony

• Establishing DBS Center- pitfalls and tips

  Darko Chudy, Croatia

• History of Stereotactic Functional Neurosurgery

  Harith Akram, UK

• Philosophy of management of Hypertonia in pediatric age group

  Walid Ahmed Abdel Ghany, Egypt

• Coffee break

• Radiofrequency lesioning Vs. Microvascular decompression for trigeminal neuralgia

  Ahmed M. Alkhani, Saudi Arabia

• Deep Brain Stimulation experience in Ljubljana: patient analysis, complications, and future directions

  Mitja Benedičič, Slovenia

• Functional neurosurgery: our experience at the University of Jordan

  Mahmoud Abdallat, Jordan/Germany

• Lunch

• Anatomy and physiology of subthalamic nucleus

  Goran Sedmak, Croatia

• SEEG procedure

  Peter Reinacher, Germany

• Coffee break

• Panel discussion

  Harith Akram, Mitja Benedičič, Ahmed M. Alkhani, Peter Reinacher, Walid Abdel Ghany, Mahmoud Abdallat, Fadi Almahariq

• Hands-on workshop

  Sponsored by Boston Scientific/Brainlab

There will be 10 minutes after each lecture for discussion and questions.

Dinner for lecturers and participants will be on Friday at 20h.

• Deep Brain Stimulation Step by Step

  Fadi Almahariq, Croatia

• Step by step for Pallidotomy

  Mahmoud Abdallat, Jordan/ Germany

• Targeting in Functional Neurosurgery

  Harith Akram, UK

• Coffee break

• Pediatric Intractable Epilepsy- Role of VNS beyond Seizures control

  Walid Ahmed Abdel Ghany, Egypt

• Frame-based and frameless stereotactic biopsy for posterior fossa lesions

  Ziga Samsa, Slovenia

• Frameless and fiducial-less method for Deep Brain Stimulation

  David Krahulik, Czech

• Lunch

• Selection of patients with Parkinson's disease, Dystonia and Tremor for Deep Brain Stimulation

  Petra Bago, Croatia

• MR imaging in Deep Brain Stimulation

  Nataša Katavić, Croatia

• Robotics in stereotactic neurosurgery- our experience with Ronna robotic system

  Domagoj Dlaka, Croatia

• MRI morphometric and diffusion tensor imaging parameters as potential predictive factors in evaluation of patients with disorders of consciousness prior to Deep Brain Stimulation

  Marina Raguž, Croatia

• Coffee break

• Hands-on workshop

  Sponsored by Medtronic

• Closing ceremony

There will be 10 minutes after each lecture for discussion and questions.